Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
Improving and Collecting Feedback
A course by Meike Schneider , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Improving and Collecting Feedback
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll give you a few tips on how to get feedback from other children and parents and continue to improve yourself. ”
In this video lesson Meike Schneider addresses the topic: Improving and Collecting Feedback, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate. Learn the fundamentals of illustrating children's books and create a coherent concept for layout, drawing style, and character design.
Partial transcription of the video
“Keep improving and collect feedback In this lesson, I'll give you tips on how to keep improving. First you need to understand what kids like. For this I would recommend you to look at some books, that have already been published. Perhaps you had favorite books as a child. You can look at them if you still have them and maybe analyze why you like the books so much. For example, I loved reading Rainbow Fish as a kid or the books of Felix. When I think back to what excites me the most, were actually always the special effects. That with Felix z. B. take out the letters and read it again separa...”
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Course summary for: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration

Meike Schneider
A course by Meike Schneider
Meike Schneider is a German illustrator and character designer who regularly works with animation studios, publishing houses, and advertising agencies. She knew she wanted to work in the creative industry from a young age, which led her to study 3D animation and VFX art. Her animation style is inspired by children's shows, Disney movies, and Nintendo games from the '90s. Illustrating children's books is her artistic outlet and allows her to feed her passion for creating characters and stories.
Her portfolio is a showcase for a wide range of projects, from editorial illustrations, character design, and visual development to product design and packaging, 3D scenery and character modeling, and look-development. Her client list includes big names like Adobe, Lidl, Dell, My Best Book, and 3dtotal. In addition to her freelance career, she has experience in education, working as the head of the 3D modeling and character design department and teaching classes at PIXL VISN and SCHOOL OF GAMES in Cologne.
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